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The common thing between AMD and Intel is that the products they make has a very extensive use of IP: the proprietary circuit designs which small vendors can't use / are not aware of / prohibited by patents / costly to obtain. For open-source community, closed circuit designs are like closed source code: proprietary binary firmware blobs of hidden disaster to happen.

FPGAs have enabled many practitioners to share VHDL and Verilog source codes of their circuits in open-sourced way, publicly, online, on GitHub.

The fact that the two major open-circuit enabling companies (Altera and Xilinx) recently got absorbed by the two closed-circuit profit making companies is alarming for open world.

Will Lattice Semiconductor withstand the harsh "fight" for openness? The best day will be when they publicly declare (at least a moral) support to the amazing IceStorm and Yosys communities!